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My Review:Title: The Gravity of Missing Things
Author: Marisa Urgo
Published by: Entangled: Teen
Release Date: June 7, 2022
Format: eARC
Pages: 320
Genres: Contemporary, Mystery, Young Adult, Coming of Age
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Source: NetGalley
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2022 COYER Spring, Lenoreo's 2022 Diversity Reading Challenge, Lenoreo's 2022 Netgalley and Edelweiss Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:Flight 133 disappeared over the ocean. No wreckage. No distress signal. Just gone.
Suddenly, everyone on the news and social media is talking about whether the pilot intentionally crashed it—everyone but me. Because I know her. The pilot was my mom, and there's no way she would hurt anyone. No one else knows that before she left, she wrote me a note. Trust me, it said.
Now it feels like someone split my world—and me—in two, and the only person who believes me is Landon. I want to trust him, to let him see who I really am, but I can't. I have my secrets, the same way Mom has hers. All I know is falling for him will only make things more complicated.
Just as I start to open up, the answer to what really happened to Flight 133 could rip my world apart all over again—for good this time.
I received a free copy through NetGalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.
3.5 stars — If you have triggers, definitely check out trigger warnings for this book.
I will admit, I found this book very confusing…not sure if it was my frame of mind, or the book, but there were definite moments where I had a hard time following Violet’s thoughts and actions. I will also note that some of those moments were me tweaking on what I was sure felt like continuity issues…my stupid brain sabotaging me again.
Violet was an interesting heroine to follow. She was not easy for me to connect with. But strangely, I feel like she might have been a pretty realistic depiction of a teenager struggling with mental health issues…it’s just been so long since I was a teenager, I think I had a hard time relating. I grew super frustrated with how out of touch with reality she seemed to be. How stubborn, how self-absorbed, and how completely opposed to seeking out help. I’m sure that’s very real, and I can’t say I’m the poster adult for pursuing therapy or anything, but I can say that I don’t think I’ve ever been in this level of denial over help being available. But maybe it’s different when it hits moreso in your college years? Or maybe I’m glossing over things in my memories?
Which is not to say that Violet didn’t have good qualities — as much as she was wrapped up in her own things, you did see her try to make sure she was there for others…it was just a battle and sometimes she won and sometimes she lost.
With that cover, I was also expecting a stronger romance factor. And there was an adorable crush situation going on in the background, but it was not prominent enough to have a kissing cover, you know? Saying all that, Landon was freaking adorable, and so unconventional for a hero, and I LOVED him…even if he was super flawed himself.
I just don’t know what to say about the story. It was interesting. I didn’t know where it was going to go, like seriously. There were a lot of twists I didn’t see coming, and others that had the right amount of foreshadowing that they weren’t obvious, but I wasn’t taken off guard.
Yeah. My feelings are kind of up in the air on this one. It was different, definitely not what I was expecting, and maybe just wasn’t a match for me personally.
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